List of Famous people who died at 88

Ernie Toshack

First Name Ernie
Born on December 8, 1914
Died on May 11, 2003 (aged 88)

Ernest Raymond Herbert Toshack was an Australian cricketer who played in 12 Tests from 1946 to 1948. A left arm medium paced bowler known for his accuracy and stamina in the application of leg theory, Toshack was a member of Don Bradman's "Invincibles" that toured England in 1948 without being defeated. Toshack reinforced the Australian new ball attack of Ray Lindwall and Keith Miller.

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Edith Munro

First Name Edith
Last Name Munro
Born on April 16, 1895
Died on November 17, 1983 (aged 88)

Edith Thrower Munro was a United States Coast Guard officer and homemaker. She was the mother of the American war hero Douglas Albert Munro and the sister of the Canadian parliamentarian Francis Fairey.

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Gillian Ayres

First Name Gillian
Last Name Ayres
Born on February 3, 1930
Died on April 11, 2018 (aged 88)

Gillian Ayres was an English painter. She is best known for abstract painting and printmaking using vibrant colours, which earned her a Turner Prize nomination.

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Izak Parviz Nazarian

First Name Izak
Born on November 30, 1928
Died on August 23, 2017 (aged 88)

Izak Parviz Nazarian was an Iranian-born American billionaire, businessman, investor, real-estate developer, and philanthropist. He was the managing partner of Omninet Capital, an investment vehicle and the first major investor in Qualcomm.

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O. W. Fischer

Otto Wilhelm Fischer
First Name O.
Last Name Fischer
Born on April 1, 1915
Died on January 29, 2004 (aged 88)

Otto Wilhelm Fischer was an Austrian film and theatre actor, a leading man of West German cinema during the Wirtschaftswunder era of the 1950s and 1960s.

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Ciputra

Born on August 24, 1931
Died on November 27, 2019 (aged 88)

Ciputra or Tjiputra was an Indonesian businessman, investor, and philanthropist. He founded Ciputra Group, one of Indonesia's largest real estate companies, with three subsidiaries, including Ciputra Development, listed on the Jakarta Stock Exchange. Known as one of Indonesia's most generous philanthropists, he established ten schools, the Ciputra University of Entrepreneurship in Surabaya, and the Ciputra Artpreneur Museum in Jakarta.

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Immanuel Wallerstein

Immanuel Maurice Wallerstein
First Name Immanuel
Last Name Wallerstein
Born on September 28, 1930
Died on September 1, 2019 (aged 88)

Immanuel Maurice Wallerstein was an American sociologist and economic historian. He is perhaps best known for his development of the general approach in sociology which led to the emergence of his world-systems approach. He was a Senior Research Scholar at Yale University from 2000 until his death in 2019, and published bimonthly syndicated commentaries through Agence Global on world affairs from October 1998 to July 2019.

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Bob Jane

Robert Frederick Jane
First Name Bob
Last Name Jane
Born on December 18, 1929
Died on September 28, 2018 (aged 88)

Robert Frederick Jane was an Australian race car driver and prominent entrepreneur and business tycoon. A four-time winner of the Armstrong 500, the race that became the prestigious Bathurst 1000 and a four-time Australian Touring Car Champion, Jane was well known for his chain of tyre retailers, Bob Jane T-Marts. Jane was inducted into the V8 Supercars Hall of Fame in 2000.

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Kevin Curran

First Name Kevin
Last Name Curran
Born on August 31, 1928
Died on August 23, 2017 (aged 88)

Kevin Patrick Curran was a Rhodesian cricketer. He played seven first-class cricket matches for Rhodesia between 1947 and 1955. His son, Kevin, played One Day Internationals (ODIs) for the Zimbabwe national cricket team, and his grandsons, Tom and Sam, have played Test cricket for England.

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Paul Morand

Paul Émile Charles Ferdinand Morand
First Name Paul
Last Name Morand
Born on March 13, 1888
Died on July 23, 1976 (aged 88)

Paul Morand was a French author whose short stories and novellas were lauded for their style, wit and descriptive power. His most productive literary period was the interwar period of the 1920s and 1930s. He was much admired by the upper echelons of society and the artistic avant-garde who made him a cult favorite. He has been categorized as an early Modernist and Imagist.

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